September 27, 2006

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — For the eighth consecutive year, the National Research Corporation has named UC Davis Medical Center as one of the nation's top hospitals in its list of 2006-07 Consumer Choice Award winners. The award identifies hospitals that health-care consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image in 180 markets throughout the United States. This is the 11th year that National Research Corporation has awarded hospitals whose consumers have recognized them for providing quality health-care services, and the eighth year UC Davis has been an award winner.

In a survey of over 200,000 households nationwide, UC Davis Medical Center was voted as having the Sacramento region's highest overall quality and image. The award is based on National Research Corporation's 2006/2007 Healthcare Market Guide, the nation's largest and most comprehensive study of its kind. Of the 3,200 hospitals named by consumers in the study, the winning facilities rank highest in their regions. The study has a margin of error of plus or minus .2 percent at a national level.

"We're very gratified that the residents of Sacramento have again recognized us as their preferred hospital," said Claire Pomeroy, Vice Chancellor, Human Health Sciences and dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine. “This puts us among the ranks of the nation's best."

The award caps a year in which UC Davis received many such honors, including being named as one of America's top 50 hospitals by a national news magazine and as having 97 of the Sacramento area's 139 best doctors by Sacramento Magazine.